Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the robbery of a taxi driver in Wagga Wagga last night.<\/p>\n
About 11.30pm (Monday 22 February 2016), a 39-year-old man was driving his taxi to Turvey Park to collect a passenger.<\/p>\n
When at the corner of Lindsay and Trevor Street, he collected the male passenger who got into the front passenger seat.<\/p>\n
Once inside the vehicle, the man produced a knife and threatened the driver, demanding cash.<\/p>\n
The driver handed over a sum of cash and the passenger fled from the car.<\/p>\n
Police are now searching for a man described as 183cm, or 6ft tall, and at the time of the robbery he was wearing a black balaclava and gloves that had a white skeleton pattern, with black clothing.<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have information about this robbery should contact police at Wagga Wagga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the robbery of a taxi driver in Wagga Wagga last night. About 11.30pm (Monday 22 February 2016), a 39-year-old man was driving his taxi to Turvey Park to collect a passenger. When at the corner of Lindsay and Trevor Street, he collected the male passenger who got into the … Continue reading “Police investigate armed robbery of taxi driver – Wagga Wagga”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}